Today I saw some unusual HDDs in the production area. The drives, with a massive 1000GB capacity had large GREEN labels on them - ‘GreenPower - Hard Drives by WD’
I then took a look at the test measuring system, and noted that these drives have REDUCED the power consumption of the already efficient T7-HSA home server boxes. The drives - from Western Digital - are an amazing piece of design and engineering - they actually have a substantially lower (50%) power consumption in IDLE state (no read/write). This means they consume approx 4W in IDLE - amazing. The T7-HSA (and other home servers) actually have a high HDD idle duty cycle - which means these new drives really will make a difference.
The benefits of these drives are numerous - Lower Power consumption = less electrical power costs, less heat, increased reliability, quiet operation… and just that little less of a carbon footprint.
Let’s hope this technology catches on - it’s good news, which ever way you look at it !!
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